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Leo Schmidt (born Leopold Rupert Schmidt, in 1953) is a German curator of monuments and a historian of art and architecture. He is professor at the department of architectural conservation at the Brandenburg University of Technology.
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- Early life and education
- Career
- Selected publications
- References
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Early life and education
Schmidt studied art history, classical archeology and history at the University of Freiburg and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1980 he gained his Doctor of Philosophie at the University of Freiburg with a thesis on the architecture of Holkham Hall.
Career
From 1980 until 1995 Schmidt worked as a senior investigator in the State Department for the Care of Historic Buildings in Baden-Wuerttemberg; last as the head of department of monument inventory in Baden. Since 1995 he is full Professor holding the chair for architectural conservation at Brandenburg University of Technology.
Schmidt's research interests include the theory and practice of heritage preservation and its history, the history of city development and historic town centres, and architecture and urban planning during the reign of the Wilhelmine Empire. He has studied building archeology and heritage preservation of English Country houses of the 18th century. He has compiled a history of the building of the Berlin Wall and the army research center Peenemünde. He has published a number of books and articles on this subject.
Since 2006 he is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.